Labor Market Outlook: February 2014

EMPLOYMENT INCREASED IN MANUFACTURING AND SERVICES

Seyfettin Gürsel, Gökçe Uysal and Ayşenur Acar

Seasonally adjusted labor market data shows that non-agricultural unemployment rate remained at 12.1 percent in the period of November 2013. Increases in seasonally adjusted non-agricultural labor force and employment counterbalanced each other, and thus, non-agricultural unemployment remained stagnant. Increases in service employment has been accelerating during this period. Similarly, manufacturing employment that  had been declining for the last five periods increased in this period.

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